Usually means: Affection driven by personal gain.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word cupboard love:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. cupboard love: Merriam-Webster
  2. cupboard love: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cupboard love: Collins English Dictionary
  4. cupboard love: Vocabulary.com
  5. cupboard love: Wordnik
  6. cupboard love: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. cupboard love: Wiktionary
  8. cupboard love: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Cupboard love, cupboard love: Dictionary.com
  10. Cupboard Love, Cupboard love: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. cupboard love: Rhymezone
  12. Cupboard Love: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  13. cupboard love: FreeDictionary.org
  14. cupboard love: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. cupboard love: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cupboard love: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cupboard love: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (cupboard love)

▸ noun:  Insincere (and usually fickle) love pretended in the hope of gaining something useful in exchange.

Similar:
cupboard faith, play-acting, fool's gold, pretense, mislove, hoodwinking, put-up, falseheart, misdevotion, mispromise, more...

Opposite:
unconditional love, genuine affection, true devotion

Adjectives:
hoosier, closet, walk-in, buttery, barnlike, safe, shelved, hutted, virgate, a, counter

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Similar:
cupboard faith, play-acting, fool's gold, pretense, mislove, hoodwinking, put-up, falseheart, misdevotion, mispromise, more...

Opposite:
unconditional love, genuine affection, true devotion

Adjectives:
hoosier, closet, walk-in, buttery, barnlike, safe, shelved, hutted, virgate, a, counter



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